GamerGeek's Best of 08 Nominees

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Last year I did my first GotY awards for each system and that was it. I promised more back then, and now I'm gonna deliver. So here's the nominees for the following categories.

Best Story:
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Fallout 3
- Fable 2
- Gears of War 2

Best Graphics:
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Fallout 3
- Far Cry 2
- Prince of Persia

Best Action/Adventure Game:
- Prince of Persia
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Tomb Raider Underworld
- Dead Space

Best Arcade Game:
- Mega Man 9
- Castle Crashers
- Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2
- Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix

Best Racing Game:
- GRID
- NASCAR 09
- Need for Speed: Undercover
- Midnight Club: Los Angeles
- Pure

Best Sports Game: (EA only due to the list being too long for the 2K Games as well, except for baseball for obvious reasons)
- NHL 09
- Madden NFL 09
- FIFA 09
- MLB 2K9
- NBA Live 09

Best RPG:
- Fallout 3
- Fable 2
- Lost Odyssey
- Infinite Undiscovery
- Tales of Vesperia

Best Shooter:
- Left 4 Dead
- Call of Duty: World at War
- Gears of War 2
- Far Cry 2
- Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

Best Strategy Game:
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
- Tom Clancy's EndWar
- Civilization: Revolution
- Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath

Best Multiplayer Game:
- Left 4 Dead
- Gears of War 2
- LittleBigPlanet
- Call of Duty: World at War

Game of the Year:
- Fallout 3
- Gears of War 2
- Fable 2
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Grand Theft Auto IV

Sorry about the long list but please comment on what you think should win what because it could affect my decision. Some may be obvious others may not. And I'm not solely going to choose based on whether I played it and liked it or not. I'm going with what seems to be the right decision for the winner. Also, just because I gave GTA4 a 10/10 doesn't mean it's going to win anything. Thanks for reading and please comment!

Until next time, LBP nominated for best multiplayer game? Really?!
-GamerGeek360

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#1  Edited By Xandurson

Last year I did my first GotY awards for each system and that was it. I promised more back then, and now I'm gonna deliver. So here's the nominees for the following categories.

Best Story:
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Fallout 3
- Fable 2
- Gears of War 2

Best Graphics:
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Fallout 3
- Far Cry 2
- Prince of Persia

Best Action/Adventure Game:
- Prince of Persia
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Tomb Raider Underworld
- Dead Space

Best Arcade Game:
- Mega Man 9
- Castle Crashers
- Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2
- Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix

Best Racing Game:
- GRID
- NASCAR 09
- Need for Speed: Undercover
- Midnight Club: Los Angeles
- Pure

Best Sports Game: (EA only due to the list being too long for the 2K Games as well, except for baseball for obvious reasons)
- NHL 09
- Madden NFL 09
- FIFA 09
- MLB 2K9
- NBA Live 09

Best RPG:
- Fallout 3
- Fable 2
- Lost Odyssey
- Infinite Undiscovery
- Tales of Vesperia

Best Shooter:
- Left 4 Dead
- Call of Duty: World at War
- Gears of War 2
- Far Cry 2
- Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

Best Strategy Game:
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
- Tom Clancy's EndWar
- Civilization: Revolution
- Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath

Best Multiplayer Game:
- Left 4 Dead
- Gears of War 2
- LittleBigPlanet
- Call of Duty: World at War

Game of the Year:
- Fallout 3
- Gears of War 2
- Fable 2
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Grand Theft Auto IV

Sorry about the long list but please comment on what you think should win what because it could affect my decision. Some may be obvious others may not. And I'm not solely going to choose based on whether I played it and liked it or not. I'm going with what seems to be the right decision for the winner. Also, just because I gave GTA4 a 10/10 doesn't mean it's going to win anything. Thanks for reading and please comment!

Until next time, LBP nominated for best multiplayer game? Really?!
-GamerGeek360

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#2  Edited By samcotts

Surprised to see no Gears 2 in best graphics and no Burnout Paradise in best racing game, but a part from that I pretty much agree with your nominee's. MGS4 is my personal GOTY, and I wasn't even completely satisfied with that. I should really get round to completing GTA4 at some point.

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Dude, NBA 2K9 is the best sports game of the year.

It's also the only one I played--but it's the BEST!

:-p

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#4  Edited By Artie

Best Story having Gears of War 2 is a joke.

There's a difference between "better" and "good."

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#5  Edited By Arkthemaniac

No More Heroes deserves a spot in "Best Action Game."

Seriously, Tomb Raider?
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#6  Edited By Xandurson

@samcotts: Come to think of it, I didn't think of Burnout Paradise when I was making the racing nominees. I may have to change that.
@Sir_Ragnarok: Well, I've never played either of them but I'll keep that in mind.
@Artie: Yeah, that's in there to fill space mostly. I heard it wasn't that great.
@Arkthemaniac: Once again, I'll keep that in mind.

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#7  Edited By TheGamerGeek

LBP is gonna be nominated for my best multiplayer too :P. Well, seems like some good nominees and I've been considering doing what your doing in which I give out awards to games I haven't played. I've decided to just do that for certain categories. Good nominations! I'm still working on mine, it's harder than I expected. I'm putting up 10 games for Game of the Year :).

EDIT: 8 games, my bad.

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#8  Edited By Xandurson

I know what you mean it was pretty hard. But I pulled through like always lol.

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#9  Edited By kilzombie

I'll do my personal list just after the end of the year, there's still a few games I haven't got around to playing or finishing. Nice list though.

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#10  Edited By ChestyMcGee

I've got to give you my vote!

Story: Metal Gear
Graphics: Far Cry
Action/Adventure: GTA
Arcade: N/A*
Racing: N/A*
Sports: N/A*
RPG: N/A*
Shooter: Brothers in Arms
Strategy: N/A*
Multiplayer: L4D
GoTY:

Metal Gear


*I havn't even played a game in this category this year!

This really makes me realise I'm too into shooters! Actually, I have played loads of strategy games this year but they're all from at least a year ago.

Metal Gear has to be Game of the Year (oooh I'm a poet!) as long as you've played the previous games. Speaking of which I hate it when people say "ooh it's a downside that if you haven't played the earlier games you won't like it or know what's going on"... well no shit: it's not like you'd see Star Wars Episode VI if you hadn't seen the other two.

Anyways yeah... tiny rant over!

=D
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#11  Edited By Xandurson

@Kilzombie: Well good luck on playing those!
@ChestyMcGee: Thanks for your input! I haven't played MGS4 but it still may win cause I'm going on popular opinion with my opinion adding into it.